On April 18, 2022, Ben ran the Boston Marathon for the first time.
I’ll start with the stuff which I wish went differently. I missed out on the top 50 by 3 spots and I missed breaking 2:25. If I had finished 20 seconds faster, less than one second per mile, I would have accomplished both of these. With that said, I am quite happy with how this race went!
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Tory and Mike hadn’t spoken to me for the rest of the day. My mom even said she didn’t blame them, with my attitude and all. ATTITUDE? I was being my best self.
But mom wanted us to play nice because some of her friends in the area were coming over for dinner tonight. Arthur grilled burgers and hotdogs for us all to enjoy as a “family.”
But worst of all, she wanted ME to say sorry and take them out for ICE CREAM. There was no way I was going to partake in their ingesting of death food and risk sullying my efforts at a herculean body, but I also didn’t want to get left out. I decided to tag along but figured I wouldn’t get anything.
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I woke up after barely two hours of sleep. I walked outside expecting to have the patio to myself, but I found Mike and Tory swimming near the shore together.
“Did you guys sleep at all!?” I asked.
“Nope, we were too busy having fun!” shouted Mike.
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